PediatricCritical Care Educationa/Training Services

Solicitation #
HHSN-NIH-CCOPC-SBSS-19-009301

This is a Small business Sources Sought notice. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding: (1) the availability and capability of qualified small business sources:(2) whether there are small businesses, HUBZONE small businesses, service disabled veteran-owned small businesses or (8a) small businesses, veteran- owned small business, woman-owned small businesses or small disadvantaged businesses veteran owned small businesses; woman owned businesses, or small disadvantaged businesses and (3) their size classification relative to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for the proposed acquisition. Your response to the information requested will assist the Government in determining the appropriate acquisition method, including whether a set-aside is possible. An organization that is not considered a small business under the applicable code should not submit a response to this notice.

Background Information:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the nation's foremost federally funded biomedical research institution. It is comprised of twenty-seven Institutes and Centers. The NIH Clinical Center (CC) is the onsite hospital for the NIH campus, providing full support for clinical studies in inpatient and outpatient settings. The NIH CC is an 870,000 square-foot facility with the capacity to serve 240 inpatient beds and 82 day-hospital stations.

The Critical Care Medicine Department was established in November 1977 to provide medical care for critically ill patients throughout the Clinical Center who have potentially reversible medical problems. Critical care medicine may be defined as the observation, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients with overt or potential failure of vital functions. CCMD's mission is to provide high quality and cost effective clinical service that meets the needs of CC patients and NIH Institutes, to facilitate the research goals of NIH Institutes and investigators, and to conduct high quality research and training in Critical Care Medicine.

The Critical Care Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) was established in 1979 to care for patients who became critically ill during treatment for their protocol while staying in the Clinical Center. Pediatric patients were first admitted to the CCMD MICU in 1988. Their care requires special and unique skills and procedures that can only be provided by physicians with specialized training. None of the CCMD medical staff are board certified in Pediatric Critical Care.

Purpose

The National Institutes of Health has a requirement for a contractor to provide pediatric critical care education/training to CC physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists. Care for critically ill pediatric patients requires special and unique skills and procedures that can only be provided by staff with specialized training. None of the CCMD medical staff are board certified in Pediatric Critical Care nor do we see a high enough volume of these patients to practice these skills on a regular basis. The training provided by this vendor will help the CCMD meet Joint Commission competency requirements.

The period of performance will be for a base year of (12) months, with (4) options to renew for additional twelve (12) month periods.

Objective:

This contract is to provide pediatric critical care education/training to Clinical Center (CC) physicians, nurses and respiratory therapist.

Scope of Work:

The contractor shall be responsible for providing education/training to the CCMD physicians (fellows and senior staff), respiratory therapists, pharmacists and nursing staff in the care of critically ill pediatric patients. These services should be provided in the form of lectures and training modules. The trainer must discuss disease etiology, diagnosis, treatment and procedures as they relate to pediatric medicine. The contractor will need to be a pediatric board certified credentialed physician at NIH in order to discuss confidential medical information with other consultants and family members. The contractor must provide staff that are leaders in national professional societies which keeps abreast of all cutting edge critical care and research topics.

The contractor shall be responsible for the following:

1. Providing pediatric critical care board certified physician trainers
2. Providing pediatric critical care expertise in the areas of diagnosis, treatment and procedures
3. Must be familiar with the unique NIH patient population and protocols in order to provide relevant training information.

Staffing

The Contractor shall provide adequate staff to meet the requirements contained in the Statement of Work. The contractor shall have the ability to make staff adjustments to meet variations in consultation requirements.

Note:
All contractors are now subject to an NIH criminal background check and
clearance prior to coming on board. The contractor is responsible for
ensuring that potential contractors submit the required information in
a timely manner to ensure continuity of service personnel.
Qualifications:

1. Contractor staff must be board certified in pediatric critical care and currently practicing pediatric critical care.

2. The contracted must be familiar with the unique NIH patient population and protocols in order to provide relevant training information

Funding Structure

The contract will be fully funded on award of contract.

Program Management and Control Requirements

Conduct:
Contractor's employees are subject to all policies of DHHS/NIH-CC with respect to conduct. If rules of conduct are not adhered to by the contract employee(s), the Government has the right to request removal of contract employee(s). Infractions of just cause for immediate removal as requested by the Government are violation of patient confidentiality, endangering patients/guests, rudeness, carelessness, damage to property, etc.

Performance/attendance issues:
NIH reserves the right to terminate contract based on poor performance, inappropriate behavior/substance abuse or attendance issues.

Service: A minimum of 2 lectures/training modules per month
Hours: Hours of work will vary and will be scheduled with CCMD educational coordinators.

Location: National Institutes of Health
Critical Care Medicine Department

This acquisition will be processed in accordance with Simplified acquisition procedures as stated in FAR 12 and under FAR 6.302 -1

Period of Performance:

The period of performance is 12 months with an option of up to four (4) one year option periods.

Location:
NIH/CC/Critical Care Medicine Department
10 Center Drive 4-5551
Bethesda, MD 20892-1288
Attention: Windy Wallin

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Capability Statement is to include:

Information regarding respondents; (a)
, including their availability, experience and informal and other training; (b) current in-house capability to perform the work; (c) prior completed projects of similar nature; (d) corporate experience and management capability; and (e) examples of prior completed Government contracts; references, and other related information:

Respondents, DUNS number, organization name, address, point of contract, and size and type of business (e.g.8(a), HUBZone, etc) pursuant to the applicable NAICS code;

Respondents; technical and administrative points of contract including names, titles addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses;

Respondents must respond to this notice by May 6, 2019 at 12:00 pm Est

DISCLAIMER AND IMPORTANT NOTICES:
This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation maybe published in Federal Business Opportunities. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a future solicitation.

Primary Point of Contact

Priscilla Abalos Contract Specialist
Phone Number 301/594/5918

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